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Office of Climate Action and Resilience releases two‑year implementation program with 46 actions, prioritizes 36 projects
Summary
City staff released a public two‑year Climate Implementation Program tied to the 2021 Climate Equity Plan, identifying 46 actions and a 36‑project near‑term subset that staff say could avoid or reduce about 2.3 million metric tons of greenhouse gases by 2040 if implemented and maintained.
Zach Palmer, director of the Office of Climate Action and Resilience, and Braden Latham Jones, the office's climate program manager, presented a public, interactive two‑year Climate Implementation Program intended to prioritize near‑term projects that advance Austin’s Climate Equity Plan.
"This is really the next step in the implementation of the climate equity plan," Palmer said, summarizing a cross‑departmental effort that draws on the Environmental Investment Plan and a prioritization tool adapted from C40. Braden Latham Jones said staff screened several hundred possible actions and used an Action Selection and Prioritization tool to weigh greenhouse‑gas…
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